http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/qtrax.outs.music.downloads/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0801/qtrax.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Qtrax recently announced that its free and legal music download service will soon launch, naming October 28th as the launch date in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. A launch in the US, Canada and the UK will happen before year's end, Qtrax informs, while the rest of the world will get the service within the first half of 2010. The re... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/qtrax.outs.music.downloads/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/apple.expands.record.deals/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0902/depechemode.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple is planning to expand the content buyers receive when shopping for iTunes music, writes the Financial Times. The company is currently said to be in negotiations with the four major record labels -- EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal -- regarding a project called "Cocktail," aimed at boosting music sales by supplying interactive material with albums. At the core of the concept is a new booklet... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/apple.expands.record.deals/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/29/hulu.to.host.music.videos/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0812/WarnerMusic1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new video-sharing website may be in the works, as the four major music labels -- Universal, Warner, EMI and Sony BMG -- are in preliminary talks for creating their own web portal, according to a weekend Financial Times report. Early last week, news came of the four labels planning to band together to create a site devoted to music videos and related content. More recently word has leaked of the ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/29/hulu.to.host.music.videos/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/15/labels.split.on.itunes.drm/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0811/starsofthelid.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hold-out major labels are split on what they want before allowing DRM-free tracks on the iTunes Store, anonymous sources claim. Although Apple CEO Steve Jobs has claimed to want DRM-free tracks on iTunes, only EMI and a host of independent labels have so far offered any material which can be copied without arbitrary restrictions. Apple benefits financially from DRM by forcing iTunes customers to... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/15/labels.split.on.itunes.drm/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/25/drm.free.majors.on.itunes/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0811/starsofthelid.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple may have already completed negotiations with the three major record labels not yet on iTunes Plus, reports suggest. Apple is only recently said to have begun talks with Warner, Universal and Sony BMG to open up its catalog for the DRM-free Plus service, which currently hosts EMI and a collection of independent labels. Although Plus tracks are popular, allowing unlimited backups and broader... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/25/drm.free.majors.on.itunes/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/05/sony.bmg.now.sony.music/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0808/sonynw-a828.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Sony today announced that it has bought out Bertelsmann's 50 percent stake in Sony BMG and will now completely own its music label. The new label, named Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SMEI), ends the short four-year run of Sony BMG and will let Sony create a "total entertainment experience" where the electronics giant can more closely integrate its music with its devices, according to company chi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/05/sony.bmg.now.sony.music/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/29/sony.blames.loss.on.phones/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0807/sony-ericssonxperiax1-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Sony today reported that its profit had dropped approximately 47 percent in the spring quarter versus the same quarter a year ago, representing one of the company's steeper drops in recent history. The Japanese company chiefly attributes the company-controlled aspects of the shortfall to poor Sony Ericsson results, which saw the company's cellphone sales virtually flatten as customers turned away... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/29/sony.blames.loss.on.phones/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/25/amazon.may.back.myspace/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0804/myspacemusic-woodhands.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The upcoming MySpace Music service may ultimately be run by another major online music store, say alleged sources for TechCrunch. The social networking site is described as most likely picking Amazon MP3 to handle the commerce behind the store but is also said to be entertaining offers from other companies, including Apple and RealNetworks. No commitments have yet been made.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/25/amazon.may.back.myspace/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/30/warner.on.comes.with.music/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/nokian96.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Nokia tonight signed on Warner Music Group to its Comes With Music unlimited subscription service, joining founding partner Universal and recent entrant Sony BMG in offering its back catalog. The deal lets users buy phones with a Comes With Music premium attached and download an unlimited amount of Warner's music (or of any other label) for a year; all tracks downloaded during that time are the u... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/30/warner.on.comes.with.music/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/30/nokia.refutes.cwm.bias/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0804/nokian81-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Nokia today rebuffed claims that its Comes With Music service will damage the company financially. The Finnish cellphone maker denies that the deal will force it to accept losses on music downloads and says instead that the service was created from the outset for profit rather than the unfair deal biased in favor of music labels, as suggested by earlier reports.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/30/nokia.refutes.cwm.bias/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:40:00 GMT